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Pastimes : Digital Photography -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Done, gone. who wrote (7992)	6/19/2004 10:29:39 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21647

Michal, Okay, I'll give you some leeway about your use of the term, snap. :) I should also have mentioned that it's not that I don't like all street photography. Instead, it's the modern street photography that I tend not to like. It's great to learn that Cartier-Bresson is a mentor of sorts. I'm really proud to own several of his signed prints: The boy proudly carrying a wine bottle in each arm The bicyclist at the bottom of the stairs One of his Bolshoi Ballet images of "Swan Lake," which you could especially appreciate because of your familiarity with theatre photography. I'm sure you're familiar with his really famous photo of Spanish children, one of them on crutches, taken through a jagged hole in a wall. I hope to eventually purchase a different image of the same scene that I saw in New York a few years ago. One of the boys is climbing through the hole. It wasn't until I saw that image that I realized that the hole is quite large. Most important, I like the less well known image a lot more than the famous one. I keep wondering when I'm going to wake up in the morning only to realize that we've lost one of the master photographers. I think he's now in his late nineties. Not to bore everyone here, but there's a great story relating to the boy carrying the two bottles of wine. When the subject of the picture celebrated his 50th birthday probably during the 1990s, arrangements were made for a very special birthday surprise. At some point during his birthday party the doorbell rang. He opened the door and none other than Cartier-Bresson was standing in his doorway, holding a bottle of wine in each arm exactly as in the famous picture! I just love that story. --Mike Buckley